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New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered
dss902 writes "The discovery of 18 new satellites of Jupiter, bringing the total of known Jupiter satellites to 58 were made using the world's two largest digital cameras at the Subaru (8.3 meter diameter) and Canada-France-Hawaii (3.6 meter diameter) telescopes atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Recoveries were performed at the University of Hawaii 2.2 meter with help from Yanga Fernandez and Henry Hsieh also from the University of Hawaii. Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics performed the orbit fitting for the new satellites.
More info here."
We ran a story on the
first eight,
but now... eighteen.
You'd think real space exploration might be a priorty.
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Subaru make telescopes now? I thought they just made cars.
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Some new worlds to explore with my starship made from a floppy!
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All these little moons are Jupiter's evil bits?
... that all this time Jupiter has been mooning us 58 times simultaneously. That cheeky devil!
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I know which I would prefer.
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In the proportion 1:3:9?
We ran a story on the first eight, but now... eighteen.
Still, not good enough excuse to post a dupe!
You mean the Canada-Freedom-Hawaii!! Silly Americans! Tricks are for kids!
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It'd be really great to know when such a thing is coming. But what should be done if one was coming? Even if it was possible to nuke the thing away (which is highly improbable), I could still understand every government who wanted to keep its nukes at home for now with the U.policeS.ofA throwing their stupid weight around.
And despite all recent attempts, my karma is still excellent.
Fight hunger. Filet a politician and send him to a 3rd world country of your choice.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: Anyone reading the article should be forewarned that the page contains blinking text. If you want to read what the text says you're gonna have to jot down each word as it appears because it's really stupidly fast (at least too fast to read the whole sentence).
The dept line says "jupiter's-a-daddy"..
Who is the mommy? Mother Earth of course! Why not Venus? Although hot, she's deadly.
The only problem is that Earth has things that can be transferred from planet to planet.. humans! A cosmic STD if you will.
When modding "Informative", please make sure it both has a source and IS actually informative.
What's the difference between a moon and a lump of rock? Why catalog rocks at Jupiter and let all the rocks in Saturn's rings go uncatalogued? Where is the dividing line?
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Such small satellites must have orbits very near to Jupiter, about 1/3 of the Earth-Moon distance. This is similar like Mercury being the smallest planet of the solar system. (Pluto is not a planet but a moon of Uranus at a nonlinear chaotic trajectory around teh center of the Uranus/Sun dual-system.)
But Jupiter is a much larger planet than earth about 254 earth masses. So these satellites must rotate much faster around Jupiter, if they don't want to be sucked onto its surface by gravitation. A simple calculation show that they must in fact have 1/5 of light speed which is relatively unlikely.
So, I suppose that these astronomer guys have an error in their calculations.
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What is a moon? We don't even have a definition for a planet yet.
to think that given the size of the universe we are still discovering things that are practically on top of us. Makes you wonder what else is out there.
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What truth?
There is no dupe
I always use Jupiter's satellites to name my servers and I was getting out of options.
You are truly a remarkable person. I salut you.
I think someone should mod the parent poster up. Even if this is a serious attempt to criticize linux, it's more funny then a troll. I guess it is sort of off topic though.
Well, it's only appropriate that Jupiter have such a harem of consorts. Any idea what they'll be named?
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It says satellites, not moons, big difference. It was my understanding that jupiter, along with all of the gas giants, each had inumerable satellites, they're called rings.
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And they tend to stick to mythology names... Last October 11 Jupiter moons discovered 2-3 years earlier were assigned names from the Greco-Roman mythology.
If scientists want to find 100 moons orbiting Jupiter, there are going to be many Slashdot articles on new Jovian moons. Thus, I propose we create a new icon for all of these articles.
You know how it is with those crash diets. First you cut back until you're only 254 times as massive as the Earth. Then, you get a sudden craving for a frozen treat and have a couple of comets and bam! You're up to 318 again.
Trash is captured by Jupiter's gravity and some doofus thinks it it a moon. If it ain't as big as the Earth's moon, it ain't a moon. Bubba's Law of Planetary Determination. Where did ya'll attend college? Yep, Mars has no naturally occurring moons.
Galileo discovered only four but this (among other reasons) was enough for Roman Church to prosecute him. The existence of objects moving arround Jupiter was a serious problem for the official geocentric model of the universe, and therefore, a challenge to the authority of the Church. Only recently, the Pope apologized for that.
I wonder what would they think of the existence of 58 Jovian satellites, just to mention one of the wonders that science has discovered.. Can we reach conclusions from the past history and apply them to the present ?
It's also redundant. This was posted yesterday too.
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The article says that the orbits they'v calculated are only preliminary. I wonder if, when other gravitational fields are taken into acount, they're really closed around Jupiter. The satellites are orbiting backward, which sounds a lot like they used to orbit the sun forwards a little clsoer iun than Jupiter.
I wouldn't be surprised if they become sun-orbiting asteroids within 100 years.
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...how long it will take for these moons to appear in Celestia.
Quaoar and 2002 MN were added only a few days after being discovered.
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Jovian moons name YOU!
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Oh so that's where I parked the spare satalight, I hate when that happens, also don't eat Tai Fried rice 4 days old and 15 day old pizza(that's been left out), If you find something move in your potato buds instant mashed potato's that's iether protien or some june bugs
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
It seems like they are all ex-asteroids or perhaps comets, at least they have all highly excentric orbits - I wouldn't be surprised if they'd find more of these 'moons'.
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In addition, the logo you see on all Subaru cars is a set of stars - a stylized version of the constellation itself.